Private Credit archive
Every Private Credit story, newest first. 419 stories
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- BDCs
BDC stocks fell again as the wider market rose
A weekly price print cannot separate a funding-cost repricing from a credit warning, and the third-quarter marks will decide which.
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- The Wrap
Private credit's distribution war moves to the insurance shelf
BSP hired the coverage, Aegon built the wrapper, Enercon sold the pipeline. The three moves are one trade, and the firms building now are betting the anchor pool reprices later.
- Who's investing
Insurance regulators answer Warren as private credit's anchor pool grows
State regulators' defense of their own oversight doubles as the capital terms on which insurer money will keep reaching direct lenders.
- The Wrap
The wealth wrapper is now the product
Same-day moves from Blackstone and Infranity show private credit's next scarcity is the distribution shelf.
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- The Wrap
Private credit's 1.7% quarter came from the wrong sleeve
The composite improved on the sleeve allocators don't buy, and the week's deals show the industry paying for origination instead of capital.
- Fund launches & raises
Blackstone wraps its perpetual funds for non-US wealth
One subscription, four asset classes — and a test of whether packaging now decides the wealth channel's economics.
- Fund launches & raises
Infranity's €15bn was built on insurance; wealth is the unproven leg
The platform milestone is real, but the push into private wealth is a distribution build the firm has not yet tested.
- Who's investing
Private credit's 1.7% quarter was carried by its riskiest sleeve
The composite improved because opportunistic lending carried it while direct lending and real estate debt each printed 1.0 per cent, and the flow underneath argues allocators already treat steadiness as the product rather than the return.
- Direct Lending
Orix sells 11 CLOs; the middle of the market thins
Anchorage's platform now runs $26.1 billion of CLO collateral. The fixed cost of managing a CLO does not shrink with the book.
- Fund launches & raises
The hiring tape says origination is the scarce input
Two ICG hires and a new structured credit desk at CPP Investments are both purchases of origination capability, and the next vehicle will show it.
- The Wrap
A $407.7m Golub CLO print and the collateral question behind it
Golub priced $407.7m through BNP Paribas while CVC, Trinitas and Guggenheim moved through the pipeline; the real test is what the vehicles hold.
- The Wrap
Valey Primus prices at 129bp, and the template holds
The AAA print on a first-time manager's CLO looks like a market rate and behaves like an administered one, which leaves the mezzanine and equity to price everything a debut cannot show.
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- Fund launches & raises
Fasanara's debut shows AAA demand is not the constraint
A first-time manager cleared the top of its stack at 129bp over Euribor, which makes collateral the harder question for Europe's new-manager wave.
- Fund launches & raises
Cheyne's £3bn close is really a deployment story
With half of CRECH IX already in loans at final close, LPs are underwriting a lending desk rather than a fundraising pitch.
- Fund launches & raises
BSP hires distribution where the liabilities run longest
A global head of insurance and two managing directors point to the shelf Benefit Street wants on repeat.
- Fund launches & raises
BofA sees more European hybrid CLO entrants, fewer reasons to cheer
A forecast of more issuers lands in a market where the constraint is collateral, not liability demand, and that changes who the entrants should be.
- Fund launches & raises
Onex guides CLO reset AAAs at 117bp, tightest in six months
A reset guide three basis points inside August's fresh-issue print says the senior bid has reopened, and the queue that follows will decide who gets it.
- Who's investing
Fund managers want more private credit and more hedges
A Clearwater survey of 250 senior executives finds near-unanimous intent among fund managers to add alternatives, alongside a hedging figure that prices the illiquidity they are buying.
- Fund launches & raises
Aegon opens insured credit fund to European institutions
Aegon has launched the wrapper and left the target raise unsaid.
- Direct Lending
AI is thinning the analyst bench direct lending cannot spare
Creditflux's recruitment slowdown is a bet that software replaces the apprenticeship which produces workout lenders.
- Direct Lending
Britain's state bank is lending where private credit's economics stop
The second regional fund in a month puts £140m behind £25,000-to-£2m loans, a bracket no unitranche fund can originate at cost.
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- BDCs
Palmer Square BDC's manager contract outranks its dividend forecast
BDC Reporter forecasts distributions through 2027, but a change of control at the external manager is what sets what those distributions can be.
- Direct Lending
KKR's $350m equipment platform is an origination bet
The asset-based finance strategy has $91bn and no shortage of capital; what the $350m Akrapoint launch buys is a desk that finds mid-ticket collateral.
- Direct Lending
Peakline buys Kalon to own equipment finance origination
The platform acquisition is the fast route into collateral-based credit, and the announcement withholds price, book size and funding structure — the three inputs that would show whether Peakline paid for originators or a static lease book.
- Fund launches & raises
Brightwood is back in the CLO primary after 18 months with a $253.55m private credit issue
A sub-$300m private credit print ends an 18-month absence and says more about collateral than about demand.
- Fund launches & raises
Goldman's Palmer Square talks price collateral, not fees
Goldman's talks for Palmer Square say the scarce input in private credit is now the team that picks the loans.
- Distressed & restructurings
One in four private credit borrowers is a workout question now
Morningstar DBRS's read, reported by Creditflux, puts a quarter of private credit borrowers in stress or support talks; the resolution rests with whoever holds the pen on the next amendment.
- Fund launches & raises
Blackstone pre-wires housing and structured credit with zero sold
Six credit vehicles filed on one Monday, none with a dollar raised: the containers for private credit's next wave now exist.
- The Wrap
A CLO cost pitch lands where the bind is collateral
An on-the-record CLO plumbing complaint arrives with no price attached, and managers, not allocators, will decide what it is worth.
- Direct Lending
BrightSpire's fifth CRE CLO makes the shelf the funding model
A $960m print with $99m left to spend and a reinvestment window running into 2029 turns a once-opportunistic trade into the REIT's rated cost of capital for multifamily loans.
- Who's investing
The sovereign mandate now sells as a bundle, private debt included
Private credit is arriving inside multi-asset sovereign mandates, and the managers who sell credit alone cannot bid for the whole ticket.
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- The Wrap
Europe's CLO shelf clears faster than its loan pipeline
Second euro CLOs from Carlyle and Cross Ocean, plus Voya's sub-EUR 310m print, say the binding constraint is collateral, not liability demand.
- The Wrap
PGIM's Peters says the credit crowding has barely started
Two rate-insensitive borrowers, the AI buildout and government spending, point the next wave of private credit demand at asset pools rather than sponsor loans.
- Direct Lending
Sixth Street trades structuring capacity for Lloyds' UK loan pipeline
In a European market running 30 per cent behind last year, a bank's borrower relationships are worth more than another fund.
- Fund launches & raises
Enercon's wind lending fund puts the manufacturer in the credit seat
MEAG's anchor ticket points insurer capital toward origination access as much as manager brand; a €10m per-project ceiling says the vehicle is built for volume.
- The Wrap
MSP Capital's £350m line is not the constraint
A £10 million ticket cap and a named Midlands hire show direct lending competition has moved from capital to boots-on-the-ground sourcing.
- The Wrap
Europe's CLO top is pricing an insurer bid that hasn't landed
Two AAA prints and a debut at 124 have put a price on the 24-point hole in European life books before the money moves.
- Direct Lending
MSP hires a Midlands pipeline for its £350m line
A £10m ticket cap and a £350m funding line leave MSP Capital with one real constraint: finding enough loans, which is what a named Midlands hire is for.
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- Distressed & restructurings
The Asia-Pacific distressed trade has a supply problem, not a capital one
Private Debt Investor's own summary concedes the region has plenty of capital—and that putting it to work is the hard part.
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- BDCs
Cheaper SBIC debt won't settle Capital Southwest's 2027 payout test
The lender has added room under the SBIC debenture program, but the payout question sits on the asset side of the balance sheet.